diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
index 9a8b897689b..22ecaa23a36 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ from pprint import pformat
 from docutils.io import StringOutput
 from docutils.utils import new_document
 from sphinx.builder import Builder
-from sphinx.textwriter import TextWriter
+from sphinx.writers.text import TextWriter
 
 class PydocTopicsBuilder(Builder):
     name = 'pydoc-topics'